[baq]

you stole a term which means something else in an established domain and now assert that the ship has sailed, whereas a perfectly valid term in both domains exists. don't be a lazy smartass.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confabulation

[criddell]

That's actually what the paper is about. I don't know why they didn't use that in the title.

> Here we develop new methods grounded in statistics, proposing entropy-based uncertainty estimators for LLMs to detect a subset of hallucinations—confabulations—which are arbitrary and incorrect generations.

[nsvd]

This is exactly how language works; words are adopted across domains and change meaning over time.

[baq]

If there's any forum which can influence a more correct name for a concept it's this one, so please excuse me while I try to point out that contemporary LLMs confabulate and hallucinating should be reserved for more capable models.